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Well, this is just wrong, but ok. 600mhz only, and that's for TV/wireless communicators. It would actually open up the range for more purposeful use that HAM, GMRS, CB, Marine, etc don't even use.

Congrats! I really gotta get mine too, technician is great for driving around and getting repeaters but HF is a must for a home base

154.190 is usually fire emergency services depending on location.

I also disliked the dependency... And went with WordPress. The thing is, WordPress isn't bad, just don't go crazy with plugins and keep things updated. Ghost will be great soon once they get over the ActivityPub hurdle. but I do wish there was ANYTHING else besides mailgun. Until then, WP it is.

If you care about how many followers you have, keeping the seperated accounts for different niche topics can be good, but otherwise if it's just posting for the fun of it and sharing info, keep your personal account. Post ham on personal account. Whichever makes you happy.

A rack like this I could see being useful for the pi, as making racks for the 10inch was tough. But I like 10inch because it fits the generic mini-pc form factor.

Ghost (I believe) strips it by default, WordPress needs a plugin. It should be the standard but it's not. I don't think static builders do either. Admittedly I need to script mine to strip it as well, I sometimes (a lot) forget to run it through before uploading.

Another warning, make sure the email linked is not your main one. you'll either get tons of spam, or someone will try to utilize the info found about that email and get into your other accounts.

Can always have it link to a Paypal or Patreon or similar. People trust paying on sites that are also trusted rather than paying on a person's personal site, I've learned.

Proud of you for making what you got so far! Looking good!

Gave 'er one too many ugga dugga's

Meaning, if the CMS has comments already built in. So if static, it would be easiest/safest to do Disqus/Giscus rather than self-host is what I was meaning. I used Hugo and Discus and it works pretty well. In your tech blog, I agree, Giscus would be best for target audience.

The only thing I'd ever need to "register" is that profile(s) and I can use any site and all my comments or posts are saved locally. I can control where those are shared and with whom, and everything can be encrypted. Bsky, 90% there, but does anyone know a better app? or have different desires? 4/4

What I want is almost what Bluesky is trying to do with a "profile first" approach to decentralized web. I can self host my profile. Okay, great, make that SIMPLE to even a grandma (click here to save your profile to your desktop and click this button to launch the "web" type simple) in which --3/4

I've been searching for YEARS to find the simplest, secure, multi-platform, multi-media, multi-purpose technology that can also protect privacy and can get people communicating with as large of a group as they choose, from 1 specific person to the world. So far Bsky has been meeting 90% of that. 2/4

We've become too comfortable with tech oligarchs. Asking someone to move from Meta is met with unease that the "new" platform will last. Or from Discord to Matrix, or Bsky, Mastodon, even email! Heck it was hard to get people ON to Discord! Give me new (simple) tech that doesn't sell out. 1/4

On the other hand, also depending on CMS, hook it up to ActivityPub. Or simply share it on your platform of choice, and let the discussion happen there. So once again, Yes, but still not self hosted.

Self-Hosting comments is like email... Spam, scams, and bots is management nightmare.

Depends on the CMS. Disqus is pretty simple to set up, and most people have one and don't have to re-sign up for individual sites. Self-hosting just complicates this same idea. But if it's WordPress or built-in comments, you lose interaction by needing sign ups. My vote: Yes & Disqus.

This might be biased but, I have the most fun on #hamradio on 2m/70cm repeaters. I love local comms. That's why I got in to radio in the first place was for evacuations in the event of fires or floods or earthquakes. Though, HF is great for SHTF when I'm unable to leave a shituation. Like Helen.

I love foundry because it's probably the most simple install process of any self-hosted app. I got it up and running within minutes and it's been working ever since. Better than roll20 IMHO.

The flipper has a coiled antenna inside; add a screen, buttons, battery, and boards, it gets bulky pretty quick. Laws of physics wouldn't allow the size to be much smaller.

There is an SDR that comes with a phone case to make it smoother and turns the phone into a dual-band Walkie Talkie. Something similar would be to get a Noelec SDR, a U-shaped USB dongle, and a short antenna mounted to the case, but it's not as sleek.

Was never on X in the first place, so no, it's not time. Never was. Nobody needs X, and this desperate attempt to beg people back is just kinda lame. It's time for federation and self hosting and truly abandoning X.

That's why they call it rag chewing! Lot of fibers. Not a lot of substance.

I don't even care about "voices heard" or "stick it to the man" I just want a future-proof locale that won't enshittify and blow itself up. Even AP sites die quickly. I didn't even use X I'm just here. I want my Gaia days modernized and persistent with self-hosting options.

Just got mine last week, you'll do great!

Legendkeeper is great for all the details and stuff, has some cool tools. Otherwise, I look bookstack even though it's not meant for this sort of thing but it helps with organization.

If you just need notes for yourself, Obsidian 100%. syncthing if you need to share it.

Foundry if you need to DM.

Alright! #hamradio call sign is now listed in the database! Just in time for the weekend! Now I just need new radio gear that isn't GMRS... Thankfully payday is just around the corner as well!

Any recommendations for technician-tier gear for home base and car setups?

My home lab hosts my journal so... Both. Both is good.

Check out on my page I've posted about mini-PCs in my home server! They cost around $50USD on eBay, and whatever SSD you want to put in, but you can get anywhere from i3 to i9, 2 to 32G of RAM, whatever! But just one of these with ProxMox has enough juice to host 90% of use cases.

It's something between nginx and cloudflared when nginx is trying to serve thinking it's a public server as cloudflare acts as a localhost connection, nginx is trying to serve a domain connection, and they conflict. If I keep the domain as localhost it works but links break